Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 1

Walter Lynwood Fleming

A.H. Clark Company, 1906 - Buildings

Narrative of Bering's second expedition, 1733-1743, by an expedition member.

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Selected pages

Introduction The Editor	3

6 Advice to Texas planters	6

7 Advice to white and black	7

8 The Bureau in Louisiana	8

The destruction of property	9

Destitution and want among the whites	20

The cotton tax	34

Northern men in the South	43

Military government 18651866	203

National politics 1866	213

3 Cleveland Convention platform	215

4 Pittsburg Convention resolutions	216

5 President Johnsons Cleveland speech	218

Politics in the South 1866	228

2 The Louisiana Democratic platform	229

3 Radical politics in Virginia	230

The Garrisons	47

3 Outrageous exercise of tyranny	48

4 A constant source of irritation	49

The temper of the Southern whites	51

3 Carl Schurz on conditions in the South	53

4 Popular sentiment in the South	57

5 Historical societies and rebellion 6 The deceitful Southerners	59

7 Good advice to the Southern people	60

8 Popular regard for Confederate leaders	61

Influence of the Confederates	63

2 The backbone and sinew of the South	64

3 The South accepts the situation 4 Buttons a sign of disloyalty	66

5 Confederate uniforms forbidden	67

Misrepresentation of the South	68

3 Complaints about misrepresentation	70

From slavery to freedom	72

3 A plan for a negro town	73

4 Free negro labor	75

Treatment of negroes	77

2 Treatment of negroes in Texas	79

3 East Tennesseeans do not like niggers 4 Loyalists oppose negroes	81

5 Friends and enemies of the negroes	82

6 A Northern view of the negro	86

7 After a year of freedom	87

Some troubles and disappointments of freedom	89

3 Fear of negro insurrection 4 Disorderly blacks	90

5 The condition of the blacks in 1866	92

6 Increased mortality among the negroes	93

Consideration of negro suffrage	95

3 Negro suffrage will come	98

4 Loyalist opposition to negro suffrage	100

5 The negroes as citizens	101

Introduction The Editor	105

Johnsons opinions and theories	114

Southern views on Reconstruction	126

Unionist plans	134

Charles Sumners State suicide theory	144

Various plans and suggestions	154

RESTORATION BY THE PRESIDENT	161

Introduction The Editor	163

References	165

The Presidents plan in operation 167 a 1 An early attempt at restoration	167

2 Southern state governments not recognized 3 Johnsons proclamation of amnesty	168

4 Appointment of a provisional governor	171

5 Forming a Johnson state government	174

6 President Johnson on negro suffrage 7 A debate on the abolition of slavery	177

8 Abolition in North Carolina	179

9 The ordinance of secession null and void 10 Repudiation of the Confederate debt	180

11 Organizing a new state government	181

12 Laws in force after the	183

13 Slavery and suffrage in a new constitution 14 The Thirteenth Amendment	185

15 Stantons opinion of Johnsons policy in 1866	186

The provisional governments in the South	189

The effects of the Test Oath	190

The iron clad Test Oath	191

4 The Alabama legislature on the state of the Union	192

5 The legal end of the	193

Opposition of Congress	197

3 The restoration of Tennessee	202

4 Speeches of a Radical agitator	231

5 A negro politician in Florida	232

Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment	234

2 The Fourteenth Amendment rejected in Florida 3 Arkansas rejects the Fourteenth Amendment	236

4 The President opposes the Fourteenth Amendment	237

5 A Southern proposal for a Fourteenth Amendment	238

Introduction The Editor	243

Laws relating to freedmen	273

14 The domestic relations of negroes pauperism and vagrancy	294

Introduction The Editor	315

Official regulations and reports	327

10 Jealousy of the army	344

11 The fate of the Old Time Southerner	345

12 Dislike of the Bureau in Kentucky	346

13 Bureau courts in Georgia	347

14 Failure of the colonization plan	348

Forty acres and a mule	350

2 The policy of the Bureau in regard to confiscation	352

3 Freedmen expect lands	353

4 Confiscations in South Carolina	354

5 Some results of Shermans order	356

6 Land certificates in Florida	358

7 Painted pegs from Washington	359

8 Sales of striped pegs	360

Estimates and opinions of the Bureaus work	361

3 The necessity for the Bureau	362

4 The Bureau and the negro troops	363

15 A Northern mans opinion	364

6 Views of John Minor Botts 7 Productive only of mischief	365

8 Criticism of the Bureau not disloyalty	366

9 The Bureau demoralized labor 10 Wade Hamptons opinion of the Bureau	367

11 Influence in labor and politics	369

12 The Bureau as a political machine	370

13 Political activities of Bureau officials	371

14 The workings of the Bureau	373

15 Success of the Bureau	375

16 A negros description of the Bureau	376

17 Charges against General Howard	379

The Freedmens Bank	382

2 In successful operation	383

3 Information and instruction	384

4 Statistics of savings	385

5 Frederick Douglass and the Freedmens Bank	386

6 Investigation of the Bank	389

7 Experience of a depositor	393

RECONSTRUCTION BY CONGRESS	395

Introduction The Editor	397

References	399

Congress begins reconstruction	401

2 The command of the army	403

3 Tenure of Office	404

4 Supplementary Reconstruction	407

The Souths reception of the policy of Con	420

The use of the army in reconstruction	428

In the Black and Tan Conventions	449

Impeachment of the President	458

Fourteenth Amendment	476

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Title	Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 1 Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Walter Lynwood Fleming Legal classics library
Author	Walter Lynwood Fleming
Editor	Walter Lynwood Fleming
Publisher	A.H. Clark Company, 1906
Original from	University of Minnesota
Digitized	13 Dec 2013

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